Berry displays big-play ability

9:43 PM,
Sep. 22, 2009

Written by

Kyle Veazey
kyle.veazey@clarionledger.com

Halfway through his kickoff return for a touchdown that opened Saturday's Mississippi State game at Vanderbilt, Leon Berry knew something was awry: The crowd wasn't cheering as loudly.

So after his teammates celebrated with him in the end zone, he wasn't surprised by the outcome: a yellow flag, a holding call on Cameron Lawrence, and not his first career kickoff return for a touchdown.

"It kind of hurt me a little bit because that was the first one I got this year," Berry, an East Mississippi Community College transfer receiver/kick returner, said Tuesday. "I told them after that, 'Man, we ...